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The development of ECU software has been the focus of improvement since its widespread inception in the late 1970's. Since that time, we have seen the transition from assembly language to higher level languages, like C, to higher levels of abstraction with the use of MATLAB® to build C language constructs. One of the areas that had not changed significantly is the methods used to evaluate, validate and verify performance. In many applications, software has been validated on the bench using the generated code in conjunction with the target ECU and some sort of I/O simulation technique. In other applications, such as AUTOSAR, software components may be developed and tested in a virtual environment on a PC and later transferred to the target ECU for functional testing in a simulated environment on the bench. In this paper, the concepts for two new tools are presented.